Issa Rae's new show is black male bashing propaganda

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Sagat said:
Where are the black people kicking ass TV shows and movies? The zeitgeist of the Obama years is more passive/subservient negro bullshyt in the media.

And damn...there really seems to be an agenda with the glaring omission of black men from the picture.

Why do black people watch this shyt?
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I got a list of black web series for you broski. Lemme find it and I'll post it. It's got ass kicking black folks.
 
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EmitDrill said:

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Can't take these shows seriously. Iyanla had lira galore and her family on there talking about fix my life....:stopitslime:

These shows are used like reality TV to get their name out there. You can't take 90% of this shyt on tv for real.

I was watching free speech tv with my wife and she was amazed how much more informative the shyt was than say MSNBC and CNN on the situations in Charlotte.

I was telling her that most that shyt is just filler and they do as much lying as telling the truth.
 
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Elle Driver said:
I don't like her. She's one of those "I had Jewish best friends in school and until I went to a majority black school I didn't have any problems, black people pick on me". That's literally her success story.
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I didn't know that was her success story
 
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thatdude901 said:
it's called "insecure" and the pilot is streaming on HBO GO

I won't spoil the plot points, but the usual suspects are all present:

- the unemployed broke boyfriend
- the brother that loves "other" women
- the aging wanna be rappers
- the "I ain't looking for love, just sex!" dudes

And of course the sistas are corporate business minded modern day black women

This is bound to be a hit, and there were some parts I laughed at. But it's waiting to exhale 2.0
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Maybe it's how black women in a large parr feel. Says more about the men than them. Im on Facebook again and good gosh.
 
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Colicat said:
Exaggerate much :skip:

From my perspective she is gonna struggle all season on choosing between two good Black men...

The brother who has been down with her for the longest but has failed to actualize his potential (not a far stretch from the reality of many Black women) and a successful Black man who is not ready to settle down... again another reality for Black women... who said she should interact with a scientist type? She works for a non-profit and is directionless with her life. She is not in that type of brother's social circle.

I think you guys want a fairy tale depiction of Black men but are not aware of y'alls own "knight and shining armor" syndrome.

The best friend's character looks like she is going to run through a gamet of successful Black men but her personality faults will get in the way of her being a good partner for any of them.

It's just crazy to me the negative spin folks in here are putting on it without a dialogue or even watching it.

That's just my take on it but I am not looking at it from such a negatively skewed perspective
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Funny, you're not disagreeing with the content, you're trying to justify it

She's an artist so she can create whatever art she wishes - but as it stands, she has a man who's been unemployed for 4 years, the dude she tried to cheat on him with just wants to smash

Yeah, in the coming episodes she's gonna run into regular ordinary brothas :stopitslime:

And not totally surprising, you missed my point of the brother in Lethal Weapon - it's not his occupation, it's that he's employed and extremely ordinary. Somebody self sufficient, busy working on his job, that doesn't need a woman to help carry him through life (that also isn't bouncing a ball for a living)

Bookmark this thread - I bet she has no characters like this on her show.
 
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God damn. I wanted the brehs to be wrong on this one but this show looks like some bs.

First scene depicts young "hood" children as black woman bashing hive mind sociopaths.

The way the boyfriend is portrayed made little sense to me. He's a good looking, well spoken guy but is still a bum? It's obvious they eeeent comfortable making him as "rough around the edges" as that kind of guy is in real life.

The whole "others" dynamic was extremely offensive. The whole issue with "dating out" is historical context. They demonized the fukk out of "Jamaal" and had this crazy inferiority complex towards his fiancé. Acting like black women view themselves as a consolation prize. "They wife up others so quickly", yet she was his first. Let other people be happy damn.

Then the whole plot with Daniel was so dumb. The old " just wants sex" stereotype. Portraying black men as these smooth talking beasts in heat.

This show is just a racist version of girls, without any depth to the male characters, that mixes in racial hierarchy and insecurity.

The fukked up thing is I have to watch to support a black woman getting her own show. Watching this makes me feel like one of those black people who voted for Obama in 2012 just because of how powerful it would be to see a black president get re elected.
 
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